Full support for Foreman. Foreman is a life cycle management tool for provisioning of both physical and virtual infrastructure resources. Foreman eases the deployment and expansion process through remote physical servers and a graphical user interface that provides a real-time global view of system resources.

Full support for OpenStack Orchestration (Heat). OpenStack Heat provides a template-based orchestration engine to quickly provision a broad range of infrastructure resources, from new compute nodes and application virtual machines, to specifying disk volumes, networks, security groups, and more.

Full support for OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Neutron (previously named Quantum) delivers “networking-as-a-service” (software-defined networking) between interface devices, such as virtual network interface cards (vNICs), which are utilized by other OpenStack infrastructure services.

Full support for OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer). Ceilometer collects and stores OpenStack resource metering and usage data. It also provides data query services for use with the enterprise operational support systems (OSS) and billing support systems (BSS) that are commonly deployed by service providers.

The real key is that all of this is tied together into a neat bow with RHEL. That doesn't mean you can't use RHEL OpenStack with other platforms. Far from it! You can use Red Hat CloudForms 3.0, sold separately, to also manage and deploy RHEL OpenStack workloads, VMware vSphere, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Enterprise users will also be glad to learn that Red Hat will support RHEL OpenStack 4.0 for an extended enterprise life cycle of 18 months. The community versions of OpenStack are only supported for 6 months. During this 18-month life cycle, Red Hat will offer security and bug fixes, performance enhancements, and the back-porting of some additional features from future releases, providing stability to the production environment that customers have established.